Finance Business Partner: Manufacturing Insight & Growth

Sharp Consultancy; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharp Consultancy is seeking a commercially minded Finance Business Partner for a well-established manufacturing business. Provide financial insight, challenge, and commercial support to operational teams and stakeholders; translate performance into actionable guidance.

Role covers budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, product costing, cost analysis, and month-end reporting. Build relationships with senior leaders, drive efficiency and profitability, and lead financial controls.

Qualifications

• Qualified with ACCA/ACA/CIMA.
• Experience in manufacturing environment.
• Strong financial planning and business partnering capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Providing financial oversight and performance analysis across manufacturing and wider operational areas.
• Partnering with operational leaders, budget holders and senior stakeholders to provide financial insight and challenge.
• Leading budgeting, forecasting and financial planning activities to reflect operational priorities and business objectives.
• Developing and maintaining product costing approaches and analysing costs, margins and performance to identify efficiency opportunities.
• Providing detailed variance analysis and explaining drivers behind performance to stakeholders.
• Working with budget holders to maintain financial control and accurate forecasting of activity and expenditure.
• Supporting month-end reporting and ensuring information is accurate and timely.
• Building relationships with senior leaders and challenging assumptions where needed.
• Identifying opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting, systems and ways of working.

Skills

Financial analysis

Budgeting

Forecasting

Product costing

Stakeholder management

Variance analysis

Education

ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualified

Tools

Excel

ERP systems

Job description

Sharp Consultancy is seeking a commercially minded Finance Business Partner for a well-established manufacturing business. Provide financial insight, challenge, and commercial support to operational teams and stakeholders; translate performance into actionable guidance.

Role covers budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, product costing, cost analysis, and month-end reporting. Build relationships with senior leaders, drive efficiency and profitability, and lead financial controls.